Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Mind and Its Place in Nature', 'Scientific Explanation and the Causal Structure of the World' and 'On the Senses'

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4 ideas

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 6. Inference in Perception

7628	Broad rejects the inferential component of the representative theory [Broad, by Maund]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 6. Relativism Critique

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How can we state relativism of sweet and sour, if they have no determinate nature? [Theophrastus]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / i. Explanations by mechanism

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Causation produces productive mechanisms; to understand the world, understand these mechanisms [Salmon]

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Salmon's interaction mechanisms needn't be regular, or involving any systems [Glennan on Salmon]